LABRST 4F03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: William Cronon
21 Jan 2019
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The trouble with wilderness in: uncommon ground: rethinking the. Human place in nature, new york: w. w. norton & co. , 69-90: new terms/concepts. Unnaturalness: aspects of wilderness that is beyond human invention (ex. The sounds of waterfalls, morning due and animals) Sublime landscape: rare places on earth where one had a higher chance of seeing the face of god (an 18th century view) Domesticated sublime: as more tourists viewed the wilderness as a spectacle to be looked at and enjoyed its beauty, the sublime effect became domesticated and the view of the wilderness as religious sentiments was less prominent. Frontier myth: the notion that wild land was an aspect of american identity that was temporary and would eventually disappear. The frontier myth lay the seeds of wilderness preservation in the us. ". Uninhabited wilderness: the removal of aboriginal people left land uninhabited for the first time in history and reminds people of how invented and well constructed.
